TIME
What is time? Listed next are phrases expressed when referring to time. Anyone can express them, at any time, but I have narrowed the examples to certain times in one’s life to illustrate a point.
- I need more time. Often declared for the middle ages because of their overactive schedules, juggling work, home, and life
- If I had more time. Can be revealed by the elderly after noticing, time is running out.
- I got plenty of time. The youth may voice this statement because they have the entire life ahead of them.
- I am out of time. This can be indicated out of desperation because the realization hits there is no more time left.
There are many definitions of time, depending on how it is used. Time is a moment, hour, day, or year as indicated by a clock of calendar. But, in essence, time is much more than that.
Time is a precious commodity. And a commodity is something useful or valued. Everyone has a set amount of time God has given them. It is not how much time you have; it is what you do with the time that you have.
Once time is spent, you cannot buy it back. The good news is you still have time to purchase. The bad news is you do not know how much time you have left. My advice is to make the present time count, for something, because the future is not guaranteed.
Do you budget your time, like your money? Budgets reflect balance, the ability to stay focused when spending your time is concerned. Or do you live minute to minute, day to day with no regards to how your time is spent?
The year 2020 was a difficult year for many people. While sitting at home, did you think about how you previously spent your time? Did you think, if you had spent more time on college, maybe you would have a better job and not have been laid off? Or if you had spent more time traveling, you would not have felt so isolated because now, you cannot go anywhere? Or if you spent more time budging your money and affairs you would not be in a financial crisis.
There may have been plenty of scenarios that starts with if only; I should have; Why didn’t I? And ends with regret.
It does not matter if you are 18, 28, 48 or 88 spend your time wisely, because you do not know how much time that you have. Do not live with regrets.
13 Come now [and pay attention to this], you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and carry on our business and make a profit.”
14 [a]Yet you do not know [the least thing] [b]about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].
15 Instead [c]you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and we will do this or that.” James 4:13-15 Amplified Bible